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The Springboard of Ideas David Speakman President TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 Original Fiction 1 Arabian Day Directorate 3 Editor’s Notes By Jeannie Warner George Phillies (Chair), 4 N3Forum (LoCs) 10 Fan List John Purcell— 4 Viewing Order Guide for the Ruth Davidson, Jon Swartz, New & Lloyd Penney—5 Patricia Williams, Torchwood 5 Comic Holly Wilson xkcd by David Speakman 13 Submission Guideline By Randall Munroe Treasurer 14 2014 Short Story Contest Rich Speakman

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EDITOR IN CHIEF David Speakman

PAST-EDITOR ADVISORS Ruth Davidson Heath Row

REVIEWS SECTION Heath Row, Editor

PUBLISHER/DISTRIBUTOR David Speakman

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SUBMISSIONS All submissions are to be sent to the editorial cabal via email at: [email protected] unless otherwise noted.

Tightbeam (Hyperspace Tightbeam), No. 270, March 2014, ISSN 2329-4809. Published by The National Fantasy Fan Federation. A one-year subscription is $18 in the United States and its possessions, payable in advance in U.S. funds. This issue was started February 15, 2014, and completed on June 6, 2014. The editor was David Speakman. The editor of the next issue is, again, David Speakman. Submissions may be emailed to him at [email protected] or via U.S. mail to: David Speakman, PO Box 1925, Mountain View CA 94042. All opinions herein are those of the writers and do not neces- sarily reflect the opinions of other members of N3F except as noted. Submission deadline for the next issue of Tightbeam is July 15, 2014. This non-commercial zine is published through volunteer effort.

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Editor’s Notes ART CREDITS Doodles...

David Speakman Mulling over this issue, I was Front Cover thinking about how fandom exists on many levels, from Missha Vara casual to life-defining. 2 Regardless of where your fandom lies on the spectrum, the was we express ourselves Alexander Safanov is of value. 5 Like the butterfly effect, a random comment, critique or full-on essay or work of fiction one of us creates can’t help Jonas De Ro but spark a reaction in another—whether it is firing up an 6, 8 imagination or firing up a lively debate about novel vs. the TV series based upon the novels. Paul Hanley That got me to thinking. I was suckered (willingly) into 10 watching YouTube videos about Zentangles—or free-from

doodle art. I thought to myself that it looked too easy to pass up. So I tied my own. Shadow Pink Eight hours later—and I doodled myself a cover for Back Cover Tightbeam—which graces this issue. Our feature story of original fiction this month is from Jeannie Warner, is back with a new short yarn with a middle eastern fantasy bent. Closing out this issue is a list I created for a friend a while back. After hearing many rave reviews, he was inter- ested in watching Doctor Who and its spin-off series Torch- wood. And he knew the story lines for each show were inter- twined occasionally and wanted to watch them I the correct order so as to not miss anything. So, I complied a viewing order list. I think it does the job in allowing those new to to get the full experi- ence while watching the show on Netflix or iTunes. I hope you agree.

Cover Art: “Tighttangle” Keep getting your geek on, by David Speakman David Speakman

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Letters of orum: Comment The following letters of comment are correspond- understand how you feel. For somebody like ences received for both N3F publications, Tightbeam me who does a zine as a means to keep in touch and TNFF, before October 16, 2013. All editing of with other fans, it does help to have a somewhat correspondence is kept to a minimum - limited chiefly steady schedule; a month or so off doesn't hurt to the insertion of name callouts to alert readers to the continuity too much, but I get where you're whom a section of the letter is addressed. Please email comments to: coming from. Good luck with your efforts to [email protected] get the zine back on track. Janet Phalen's poem "Ten" on page 7 was nice, as was its accompanying illustration. Sci- 2014.03.15 ence Fiction poetry is deucedly hard to write: I John Purcell have tried it, think I've come close to writing [email protected] good ones, but as with fiction, the problems are consistency, message and tone. Word choice is Here is a brief loc mostly to let you know a biggie, and for me, that's part of the enjoy- that whenever an issue of Tightbeam is posted ment I get out of writing poetry. Well done, to efanzines.com, I take the time to read it. Janet. Also, this time around there are a couple items The Flash Fiction was alright. What was the I'd like to say about the zine. So let's dive on in original spark for the story, David? Seeing a and see what can be found. "road construction" sign on the road or in the Hey, I like Hanie Mohd's cover art. Very newspaper? Sometimes just a random thought nicely done, in its Manga-way: colorful and gives me an idea for a story, so I'm curious. My fun. In fact, all of the interior illustrations are problem is that I have so many ideas but not quite good to go along with the clean layout. I enough time to turn them into completed sto- have long felt that the visual appeal of a fanzine ries. Some year... is just as important as its content. Back in the My wife and I have enjoyed watch- day the Masters of the Mimeograph produced ing Dracula this year, and are pleased that it some incredible looking fanzines; then when was renewed for a second season. We like this some fans went letterpress and moved into semi particular version, especially the small Steam- -professional mode - Locus, Algol, Nickelode- punk elements that creep in every now and on, and others of that ilk - the zines became then. Other shows we like slick magazines. Nowadays the east of desktop are Grimm and Almost Human, and publishing and the Internet make it possible for once Defiance and Warehouse 13 return - sadly, fans to create very nice fanzines. Some of my the latter for its last season - we'll be sitting current favorites are Beam, Chunga, pretty good. Right now there is a lot of good SF and Exhibition Hall, but there are still some & F on television with a broad variety from excellent print zines with top-flight production straight fantasy (Lost Girl, Supernatural) to values. So all this is my way of saying that historical fantasy (Reign) to comic book heroes Tightbeam is looking really good, and you folks (Marvel Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Arrow, and the should keep up the good work. forthcoming The Flash) to straight science fic- I wouldn't worry too much about meeting tion like Defiance. If a person is a media fan, fanzine deadlines, although an organization like this is a good time to be one. the N3F has a set publication schedule in- Well, I think that will be good for now. grained into the club's constitution, so I can Many thanks for posting, and I look forward to

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seeing more zines coming from the N3F. a viewing marathon that took us through the five seasons of the show, plus all the assort- 2014.03.15 ed movies and the spin-off series Crusade, John Purcell which lasted only a year. So, just about any [email protected] series you might list is something that just hasn’t caught my interest. It’s me, it’s not the I haven’t had much time to write locs be- quality of the television work, I’m sure of it, cause of the never-ending job hunt, but here but in this era where the most popular tropes comes some commentary anyway, on include zombies and vampires, there isn’t Tightbeam 269. Let’s see what I can say. enough there for me. I have been reading online about two programmes that are up- A great cover! Well done, and I’d be interest- coming and being planned, Lantern City and ed in hearing the story behind it, in more Space Command, by Bruce Boxleitner and ways than one. Hanie Mohd? Tell me more… Marc Scott Zicree respectively. I hope to see great things there. David, looks like you’ve had to deal with what I’ve had to. Every so often, life rears up and Done for the moment, I am so far behind with kicks you someplace tender, and all your my fanzinish correspondence! I will be trying wishing and hard work won’t fix things. I’ve to get caught up, and this is the first step. had a great interview recently, and I am pray- Take care, and see you with the next issue. ing for a positive telephone call some time in the next few weeks.

My own loc…we quite enjoyed Ad Astra 2014, the one convention we’ve attended since its first year, 1980. As I write, we’ve come back from a small steampunk gathering today in Oshawa, east of Toronto, and it was a fine time indeed. Next weekend is CostumeCon 32, and it should be good as well.

The last time I followed a television show with any regularity was Babylon 5. We just finished

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Original Fiction Jeannie Warner

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I passed what I took to be a maid lying on a climbed into the tower through a small small rug near the window. She was curled window, and stepped carefully from tightly with her head on a cushion, with a light theI ladder onto the sill, then down to the tiled covering of cotton over her form for modesty's floor. I felt awkward, out of my skin. I am de- sake. Less delicate was the soft snore coming vout, and a man of importance. I am not a thief from her, but one cannot help these things nor in the night, by Allah! Although, technically, I hold them against others. must be called a thief by day on this mission to In the center of the room stood a bed, with serve my master. I could trust it to no other. stairs on each side leading up to beautifully My passing disturbed a few crumbs left for carved posts holding a canopy of soft pink silk. birds on the edge of the window, and the falling The canopy was closed, which was a trifle odd of them sounded like thunder to my paranoid for daylight, but I mused that if the maid was ears. But it was nothing, and no one stirred in sleeping instead of working during the day, no the chamber. Robbers are not expected during doubt she had neglected other duties as well. the day, in the heat of the afternoon. Outside the She was not mine to chastise, and so I dis- sun beat down, so hot that the invisible djinni of missed the matter as I searched for the writing the desert were shimmering in their dance, blur- desk. Careful and quiet. ring the horizon. I looked back in and around Ah, there on the other side of the bed: A chair the room, letting my eyes adjust. and writing desk, the simplicity of the fine The bedchamber was of royal proportions, wood embellished with beautiful painting under and for a moment I bowed my head in shame lacquer and chased with silver designs. I am that I was trespassing in this noble palace. But something of a calligrapher when the divine then I steeled my will, for my fate was my own spirit moves - and when my Lord can spare me and I could not allow my Caliph and our lands from his side - and the beauty of this exquisite to be captive to magic any longer. Inward I little piece of furniture caused a rare sort of crept, step by step, the soles of my shoes whis- envy. Following immediately upon the envy pering against fine tiles. was guilt for the sin of feeling it, and I bowed 6

my apology to the name of this Shahryar before could both be put to death." She circled me starting my search for the pen. once, looking me up and down. "A man of good I had just worked the little drawer open when fortune, one established in life, stealing into the I heard someone stirring in the bed behind me. King's private chambers? There is a story in it. "Who is there?" a woman's voice, her tone nerv- You must tell me why you are here, for I am in ous. I froze in place, hoping for a moment to be need of a new story." mistaken for the wind, or a mouse. I relaxed a fraction, as there seemed no im- But it was not to be. I turned as the silks were mediate danger of her throwing a fit. The girl pushed aside by a slender hand and saw her. sat in the chair, and carefully opened the lid to Ah, for a moment I was just a man struck dumb her desk. I realized the desk was hers, for she fit by the appearance of a woman. Not pretty - it perfectly. She pulled out a scroll, an ink nothing so commonplace as mere prettiness. stone, and a pen that made my heart beat quick- She had too much strength in her chin and nose er. to be called beautiful by the court poets, and far "Your pen. Is that ostrich? It is so unusual." too much intelligence in her eyes. Her shoulders "I think it must be ostrich," the girl hesitated, were square, and I glimpsed a body young and looking for a moment at the brilliant blue plume lithe, but generous of hip and breast filling the in her hand. "It was a wedding present of sorts, thin kaftan before averting my eyes back to her given to me on the day I married the King." face. There was no one feature that called to Dark eyes looked up at me, luminous and a me. But I have evaluated at first sight a thou- trifle sad. "An older woman rushed forward sand horses, camels, goats, men, and women through the crowds, and pressed it into my hand over the years in service to my Lord. Her eyes as I passed on my way to the palace in a chair. were steady, filled with the steadiness that She said it would help me, and that it came comes with life’s wisdom. I knew at once that from someone who didn’t deserve it. I didn't see this woman was a pearl beyond the price, and what became of her the soldiers pushed her again I sinned against this distant ruler for cov- back. It's beautiful, isn't it?" She ran the plume eting a second possession. against her palm, letting the feather tickle her "Are you here to kill me?" my desire asked in fingers. a low voice, with a fearful glance over her I cleared my throat, lest I think too much on shoulder toward her maid. those hands and feathers. "It is. So beautiful that I was struck dumb with surprise, and then I fear I must steal it. I'm sorry, Lady." hastened to shake my head. "No. I am not. I am She looked startled, then abruptly frowned. a thief, not a murderer." I then offered her a "No, you must not. I think of things when I hold salaam, hands pressed together. "I mean you no the pen. Wild, wonderful stories swim all harm. I am Jafar al-Barmaki, and I beg your around my head. If I couldn't write... I must... N pardon for intruding. Especially in your private -no. You kill me to say that you will take it." chambers.” Her stuttering shocked me, for being so dis- She looked at me for a long moment, measur- parate from the character I had already estab- ing. I concealed the quiver of desire for her lished for her in my mind, and for a moment I loveliness before the lady arose and stepped could not believe my ears. "You believe that down the steps toward me. My body was tense, you will die over a pen? I do not believe a wise torn between desire and the regret for the possi- and successful ruler such as the King would be bility that I might need to silence a loud cry or so capricious. Were the pen made from the scream. feather of the legendary Simurgh itself; to kill "You're well-mannered for a thief. And too one of his wives for what she could not help? well dressed to need to steal. I think you must Impossible." Although if our land’s one legend be a bit of a liar, but that harms no one here could be believed, it was indeed such a feather. today: Save that by you being here, it means we I reached out and tugged the pen loose from her 7 reluctant fingers. both, and only rose to light lamps about the She sagged in her seat as tears sprang up and room when the sun started to fade away into the choked her. "No. He... is sworn to kill me to- western sky. morrow morning. He swears so every morning. I cleared my throat as the beauty finished her I tell stories so that he will not. I have told eve- sad tale, with the rusty feelings of regret of ry story I know over the past year, and still he what I must take and what I must leave behind. speaks of death. I fear I will run dry, and that "Perhaps I have one more story for you, to spin will be the end of me and my sister both. With- out for your revenge-maddened husband. I give out my pen, how will I write down my ideas? it to you because you have held magic in your How will I even think of them? I beg of you, in hand, and it has played you true, even as it Allah's name, give it back." plays my land and my Caliph false. The very notion of the "I have the great honor to be King being so irrational was the Vizir of a wise and noble abhorrent. "Kill you? For Caliph, in lands far up the want of a story? Lady, you river near the mountains. My make no sense." I tucked the son, by turns a trial and pen into my robe, and dared blessing to me, is engaged to to reach out and lay a hand the daughter of my Lord. upon her shoulder. I was This daughter, of whom the stealing from the Shahryar, poets sing, is known far and which is death. To touch his wide for her fair face and wife merely would make the manner of death pleasant nature." I thought of the vapid prin- more unpleasant. "Tell me." cess, and my tone dried to match my expres- And so she did. Her tale of the King betrayed sion. "Yes. She is very pretty. These two were was a sad one, and disturbing that an otherwise to wed, as they have been betrothed since child- wise and capable ruler would be so violently hood. The Caliph changed the very law to enno- jealous in matters of love. She kept her voice ble her future husband-to-be, and tutored my low and soft, describing the previous months of son for hours in statecraft. It was widely seen telling stories by night to her sister to retain her and applauded as a good match for them both." virginity and her life. She explained how it was A cooler breeze blew in through the window when she held the pen, she thought of these as night fell. I continued, "Some few weeks new wild things. She spent her days writing ago, all manner of strange things began to hap- down little snippets of ideas that she could spin pen. Impossible things for a civilized time. My into stories to tell her husband to spare her life. son has departed to the Caspian Sea with a Magical words, magical storylines from the past crew, calling himself a Prince. 'Sinbad', he says and the lands of the unrighteous djinni and we must call him." My frustration mounted at sorcerers. the thought, and I rose to pace. The women I hung on her words. The shape of her lips, followed me with their gazes. "I've not heard the husky dark warmth of her voice. I fell in from him in weeks. love in those moments, a ridiculous fancy for a “Meanwhile the princess has fallen in with a man of my age and position, and sighed that she Chinese beggar she met in the market place. belonged to another man. Her father was the The strange boy has an acrobat's skill, and a advisor to a King, who had married her off by silver liar's tongue with his promises. He has her own request to try and end the king's killing gold from we know not whence, that he had spree. The queen’s sister woke in silence during none of before according to the women of the the recitation. She looked more nervous than wells. Now the princess wants to marry him the young queen, but chose not to betray her instead of my son. Her father said that I should kin. Instead, she sat quietly and watched us marry her to my son by proxy if he is away, but

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I pray it doesn't come to that." sister is in danger in the morning, put a lamp in She bit her lip, and I turned to look into her the window. By day or night, I will do what I suddenly thoughtful face. "Does any of this can." sound familiar, my Lady? Like one or more of I heard the sound of footsteps approaching your stories, perhaps? I went to a fakir who is outside the chamber door, and judged it a pru- able to see what is unseen. He told me that a dent moment to retire in haste. My eyes re- wife my Lord had divorced for being barren turned to the Lady, and I smiled as gently as I and embittered had stolen away a magical pen could as I backed toward the window. "I do not from his treasure. It is the only magical treasure think I will see a lamp. I think you will live a in our land, as it happens, and I had not even long and prosperous life. And if your husband believed in magic. He prophesized that the one grows in sense, he will come to share his who holds the pen would destroy my kingdom thoughts and life with you more fully, for I and its future, if they started to write of our think it will only benefit your kingdom." lands. But when I found and questioned her, the Over the sill I hopped, and down the ladder to old harridan said she’d visited her cousin far flee the grounds. I did not think the ladies away, and given it to the king’s new bride. This would call for help or raise an alarm, and true to is the pen. I must have it back.” my evaluation they did not. Nor did I see a The young queen drew her breath in sharply. lamp in the following three days and nights. She was too honest to hide the emotions that I returned home with the pen, and a great deal rose in her eyes, so near the surface from so of regret. My lord the Caliph was a righteous many days and nights living in fear. "I never man, who locked the pen away so that it would meant - oh my good sir. What have I done? never be used against us again. Nor for us, for You… must take it back. It is only right." But he did not believe in usurping the will of Allah. her eyes filled with tears, and her sister has- My son never returned, and I married the tened to wrap an arm around her shoulder to Princess. Alas. hide her face with a veil. I pulled the pen out, and turned it in my fin- gers, thinking. "Lady," I said at last. "I do not think you need a magic pen to tell your stories. THE AUTHOR I think you have a magic all your own. You've started so many tales, and spun webs that have Jeannie Warner is a computer security lured your husband into staying his hand to professional by day, and a writer by night. listen." I waved her sister away, and knelt to She spent her formative years in Colora- take her chin in my hand so that she would look do, but has lived in Washington, Oregon, into my eyes. Canada, Arkansas, and now California as "You have bewitched me, and I have heard well. Her stories span many genres from your voice for but a short time. In my youth, I fantasy and to thrillers and might have cast aside my family and responsi- crime. She her short story, “Nursery bilities and tried to convince you to run away Rhymes,” appeared in Tightbeam #266 that we might find our own fortune." I sighed, (the August 2013 issue). You can read her letting go. "But I am old, and have the future of here or at KnightBridge’s latest Rom Zom my people and my Caliph to think on. I am Com release. Her mythic origins involve a taking the pen, because it was stolen and must herd of trilling otters serenading her arri- be returned so that it can cause no further harm. val from the sea, but the texts are largely But I will wait and watch your window for open to interpretation and have even been three days." called apocryphal. I turned to look at her sister. "If you judge that the King's interest wanes, and that your

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Viewing Order Guide for the New Doctor Who & Torchwood So, you have never watched the new Cybermen Doctor Who and would like the start, but 20. Doctor Who S02E6 – The Age of do not know where. This is a compiled Steel list of what to watch—when— for those 21. Doctor Who S02E7 – The Idiot’s Lan- new to the new Doctor Who (2005 and tern after) and its spin-off, Torchwood, and 22. Doctor Who S02E8 – The Impossible want to catch up on DVDs, rentals or Planet online streaming video: 23. Doctor Who S02E9 – The Satin Pit 24. Doctor Who S02E10 – Love & Mon- 1. Doctor Who S01E1 – Rose sters 2. Doctor Who S01E2 – The End of the 25. Doctor Who S02E11 – Fear Her World 26. Doctor Who S02E12 – Army of 3. Doctor Who S01E3 – The Ghosts Unquiet Dead 27. Doctor Who S02E13 – 4. Doctor Who S01E4 – Al- iens of London 28. Doctor Who S02E14 – 5. Doctor Who S01E5 – Christmas Special :The Run- World War Three away Bride 6. Doctor Who S01E6 – Da- 29. Torchwood S01E1 – Eve- lek rything Changes 7. Doctor Who S01E7 – The 30. Torchwood S01E2 – Day Long Game One 8. Doctor Who S01E8 – Fa- 31. Torchwood S01E3 – ther’s Day Ghost Machine 9. Doctor Who S01E9 – The 32. Torchwood S01E4 – Empty Child 10. Doctor Who S01E10 – The Doctor 33. Torchwood S01E5 – Small Worlds Dances 34. Torchwood S01E6 – Countrycide 11. Doctor Who S01E11 – Boom Town 35. Torchwood S01E7 – Greeks Bearing 12. Doctor Who S01E12 – Bad Wolf Gifts 13. Doctor Who S01E13 – Parting the 36. Torchwood S01E8 – They Keep Kill- Ways ing Susie 14. Doctor Who S01E14 – The Christ- 37. Doctor Who S03E1 – Smith & Jones mas Invasion 38. Doctor Who S03E2 – The Shake- 15. Doctor Who S02E1 – New Earth speare Code 16. Doctor Who S02E2 – Tooth & Claw 39. Torchwood S01E9 – 17. Doctor Who S02E3 – School Reunion 40. Doctor Who S03E3 – Gridlock 18. Doctor Who S02E4 – The Girl in the 41. Doctor Who S03E4 – Daleks in Man- Fireplace hattan 19. Doctor Who S02E5 – Rise of the 42. Doctor Who S03E5 – Evolution of the

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Daleks 72. Doctor Who S04E3 – Planet of the 43. Torchwood S01E10 – Ood 44. Doctor Who S03E6 – The Lazarus 73. Doctor Who S04E4 – The Sontaran Experiment Strategem 45. Torchwood S01E11 – 74. Doctor Who S04E5 – The Poison Sky 46. Doctor Who S03E7 – 42 75. Doctor Who S04E6 – The Doctors 47. Doctor Who S03E8 – Human Nature Daughter 48. Doctor Who S03E9 – The Family of 76. Doctor Who S04E7 – The Unicorn & Blood the Wasp 49. Doctor Who prequel- The Infinite 77. Doctor Who S04E8 – Silence in the Quest Library 50. Doctor Who S03E10 – 78. Doctor Who S04E9 – Forest of the 51. Torchwood S01E12 – Captain Jack Dead Harkness 79. Doctor Who S04E10 – 52. Torchwood S01E13 – 80. Doctor Who S04E11 – 53. Doctor Who S03E11 – 81. Doctor Who S04E12 – The Stolen 54. Doctor Who S03E12 – The Sound of Earth the Drums 82. Doctor Who S04E13 – Journeys End 55. Doctor Who S03E13 – Last of the 83. Doctor Who S04E14 – Christmas Time Lords Special: 56. Doctor Who S03E14 – Christmas 84. Doctor Who S04E15 – Dreamland Special :Voyage of the Damned 85. Torchwood S03E1 – Children of 57. Torchwood S02E1 – Kiss Kiss, Bang Earth: Day 1 Bang 86. Torchwood S03E2 – Children of 58. Torchwood S02E2 – Earth: Day 2 59. Torchwood S02E3 – To the Last Man 87. Torchwood S03E3 – Children of 60. Torchwood S02E4 – Earth: Day 3 61. Torchwood S02E5 – 88. Torchwood S03E4 – Children of 62. Torchwood S02E6 – Earth: Day 4 63. Torchwood S02E7 – Dead Man 89. Torchwood S03E5 – Children of Walking Earth: Day 5 64. Torchwood S02E8 – A Day in the 90. Doctor Who S04E16 – Planet of the Death Dead 65. Torchwood S02E9 – Something Bor- 91. Doctor Who S04E17 – The Waters of rowed Mars 66. Torchwood S02E10 – From Out of 92. Doctor Who S04E19 – The End of the Rain Time: Part 1 67. Torchwood S02E11 – 93. Doctor Who S04E20 – The End of 68. Torchwood S02E12 – Time: Part 2 69. Torchwood S02E13 – 94. Doctor Who S05E01—The Eleventh 70. Doctor Who S04E1 – Partners in Hour Crime 95. Doctor Who S05E02—The Beast Be- 71. Doctor Who S04E2 – The Fires of low Pompeii 96. Doctor Who S05E03—Victory of the 11

Daleks World 97. Doctor Who S05E04— The Time of 122. Torchwood S04E02— Angels 123. Torchwood S04E03—Dead of Night 98. Doctor Who S05E05—Flesh and 124. Torchwood S04E04—Escape to L.A. Stone 125. Torchwood S04E05—The Catego- 99. Doctor Who S05E06—The Vampires ries of Life of Venice 126. Torchwood S04E06—The Middle 100. Doctor Who S05E07—Amy’s Choice Men 101. Doctor Who S05E08—The Hungry 137. Torchwood S04E07—Immortal Sins Earth 138. Torchwood S04E08—End of the 102. Doctor Who S05E09— Cold Blood Road 103. Doctor Who S05E10—Vincent and 139. Torchwood S04E09—The Gathering the Doctor 140. Torchwood S04E10—The Blood 104. Doctor Who S05E11—The Lodger Line 105. Doctor Who S05E12—The Pandori- 141. Doctor Who S07E00—The Doctor, ca Opens the Widow and the Wardrobe 106. Doctor Who S05E13—The Big Bang 142. Doctor Who S07E01—Asylum of the 107. Doctor Who S05E14—A Christmas Daleks Carol 143. Doctor Who S07E02—Dinosaurs on 108. Doctor Who S06E01—The Impossi- a Spaceship ble Astronaut 144. Doctor Who S07E03—A Town 109. Doctor Who S06E02—Day of the Called Mercy Moon 145. Doctor Who S07E04—The Power of 110. Doctor Who S06E03—The Curse of Three the Black Spot 146. Doctor Who S07E05—The Angels 111. Doctor Who S06E04—The Doctor’s Take Manhattan Wife 147. Doctor Who S07E06—The Snow- 112. Doctor Who S06E05—The Rebel men Earth 148—Doctor Who S07E07—The Bells of 113. Doctor Who S06E06—The Almost Saint John People 149. Doctor Who S07E08—The Rings of 114. Doctor Who S06E07—A Good Man Akaten Goes to War 150. Doctor Who S07E09—Cold War 115. Doctor Who S06E08—Let’s Kill Hit- 151. Doctor Who S07E10—Hide ler 152. Doctor Who S07E11—The Journey 116. Doctor Who S06E09—Night Terrors to the Center of the TARDIS 117. Doctor Who S06E10—The Girl Who 153. Doctor Who S07E12—The Crimson Waited Horror 118. Doctor Who S06E11—The God 154. Doctor Who S07E13—The Name of Complex the Doctor 119. Doctor Who S06E12—Closing Time 155. Doctor Who S07E14—The Day of 120. Doctor Who S06E13—The Wedding the Doctor of River Song 156. Doctor Who S07E15—The Time of 121. Torchwood S04E01—The New the Doctor 12

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2014 N3F Amateur Short Story

made of email receipt. Privacy and property rights will be Story Contest Rules and absolutely respected. No one other than the Short Story Entry Blank Judge will ever see the submission. 6. There is no entry fee charged. While N3F members are encouraged to enter the contest, members will not 1. This contest is open to all amateur writers in the field, receive any preference in judging. . regardless of whether they're members of the National Fantasy Fan Federation. For the purposes of this contest, 7. Cash prizes totaling $100 will be awarded as follows: we define an amateur as someone who has sold no more First prize is $50, second $30, and third $20. Honorable than two (2) stories to professional science fiction or fanta- mentions and semi-finalists will receive a certificate of sy publications. award.

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